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Product Description This edition presents 28 of the best Father Brown stories, chosen and introduced by their finest critic, W. W. Robson. His work brings together a lifetime's critical appreciation of Chesterton and includes the establishment of new texts for some of the stories. Review `Some 28 of G.K. Chesterton's best stories are collected in Father Brown: a Selection.'The Oxford Times`a cheap but handsome volume of 28 tales of ingenuity and reason, each containing its own pithy yet profound moral observation for the reader to mull over at leisure'Nicola McAllister and Laurence O'Toole, Daily Telegraph About the Author The late W. W. Robson was David Masson Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh University. He edited the Jungle Book in World's Classics, and the Case Book of Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of the Baskervilles for the Oxford Sherlock Holmes.